This year’s Mission Bay High School girls’ varsity field hockey team is having a great season. Coached by Kris Auer and assistant coach Katie Brown, the lady Bucs take an 8-6 record into the final three games of the season. Coach Auer has dubbed this year’s seniors the “Great Eight” for their teamwork, tenacity, mentoring of the JV and juggling field hockey and I.B. academics. Their average GPA is above 4.0.
Outgoing seniors are: goalie Pauly Carvalho (three shutouts); forwards Laura Kamphaus (two goals) and Dayna Stout (four goals); mid-fielders Carley Dunn (six goals), Sara Sandoval (one goal) and Hannah Tandy (one goal); defenders Jerrilyn Goldberg and Kim Montenegro, who are always keeping the games close and the Bucs in the game.
“This team has taken on the personality of its seniors,” said coach Auer. “They are hard working and fun loving. They are shining examples of MBHS and it has been a pleasure to coach them.”